Grammar Test 1,  Grammar Test 2,  Grammar Test 3,  Grammar Test 4,  Grammar Test 5,    
Grammar Test 6,   Grammar Test 7,  Grammar Test 8,  Grammar Test 9,  Grammar Test 10

1. Hardly ever _____ such a gathering of distinguished scientists from so many different countries.

 

A) there was

B) there has been

C) has there been

D) would there have been

E) there had been

Answer C

2. The rescue workers _____ able to rescue some of those who _____ still alive under the rubble. 

 

A) should be / were

B) may be / are

C) might have been / have been 

D) will be / would be

E) were / will be

Answer B

3. As the decade ____ to wind down, Mark Morris ____ as our century’s youngest great choreographer.

A) has begun / had stood
B) will begin / is standing
C) was beginning / has stood
D) begins / stands

E) is beginning / has been standing

Answer Ê

4. Of the many attempts that ____ to regulate language one way or another, very few ____ .

A) were made / had succeeded
B) have been made / have succeeded
C) are made / succeeded
D) could have been made / will succeed
E) are being made / may have succeeded

Answer B

5. An acorn, left to itself becomes an oak, and a geneticist ____ its DNA to make it grow into an elm may justly be said ____ with its natural course.

A) altering / to have interfered
B) having altered / to interfere
C) to alter / having interfered
D) being altered / interfered
E) to have altered / to be interfering

Answer A

6. In the past few months, our company director ____ more mettle than most industrialists ____ in an entire career.

A) had shown / have done
B) showed / would do
C) shows / did
D) was showing / may have done
E) has shown / do

Answer E

7.  If they ____ what sort of a person he was, they ____ him their support.

A) would know / didn’t give
B) knew / won’t give
C) had known / wouldn’t have given
D) would have known / hadn’t given
E) have known / haven’t given

Answer C

8. I don’t imagine he wrote the speech ____ but ____ did so, certainly made a good job of it.

A) for them / whomsoever
B) of his / somebody
C) by him / they
D) himself / whoever
E) themselves / whichever

Answer D

9. As ____ of our employees can afford cars of ____ own, they all have to rely on public transport.

A) few / them
B) some / his
C) none / their
D) most / our
E) many / its

Answer C

10. There are situations ____ the best way to heal the patient is to help him die peacefully.

A) from where
B) in that
C) whence
D) for whom
E) in which

Answer E

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